Welcome to The Broad Brush, your weekly, two-sentence news review. Here’s what happened this week. For those who have had the pleasure of knowing him, this will forever ring true: The Rev. Roger Bauer …

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Broad Brush, your two-sentence news review. Here are your headlines for this week. The Planning Board considered design plans for 52 new homes and 37 condominiums …

Alameda Unified’s pension costs could nearly triple and those of its teachers could rise by 25 percent under Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal to reform the California State Teachers Retirement System, …

Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget offers California’s school districts some good fiscal news in the form of higher per-student funding and payment of billions of dollars of prior-years’ IOUs. But …